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    A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

    Does anyone know of a way to remove ONLY the Maximize button from the main A5 window? My app's interface is relatively small, probably takes up 1/5th of the screen on a high res. large screen monitor. I would like to be able to minimize it, but not maximize it as the application looks somewhat retarded with the layout at the left top corner of the screen and a large blank area filling the rest of it. I could remove all of the menu buttons with "-nosysmenu" from the command line and then add my own minimize and close buttons, but if I were to use that method, it would look more polished if I could also remove the title bar all together and leave only a thin border around the main app window allowing for a custom title bar. I read every post I could find as well as the documentation and found a lot of good info, but nothing on removing only the max button. I thought perhaps someone had come across it somewhere before or figured it out on their own. A5 has a wealth of information, just sometimes difficult to find what you're looking for.
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    Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

    You can disable both min/max at startup, but not just one (-nominmax). See:

    http://alphafivewiki.com/Starting+Al...light=nominmax
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

     [email protected]
    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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      Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

      Originally posted by Peter.Greulich View Post
      You can disable both min/max at startup, but not just one (-nominmax). See:

      http://alphafivewiki.com/Starting+Al...light=nominmax

      Thanks for the reply Peter, I was aware of that but it doesn't fit the bill. With all the variance in screen resolution with modern computers, it would be a nice addition to be able to remove the maximize button or the remove the title bar completely giving even more flexibility for the interface design. There are work arounds, but they just aren't aesthetically pleasing in my opinion.

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        Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

        You can do that, but it means all your forms have to be dialogs or use xdialog. You program the A5 shell to hide below the screen on startup. Working only with dialogs is possible but tricky. Xdialog requires even more coding, of course.
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

         [email protected]
        https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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          #5
          Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

          Yes that's true and I have experimented with that idea before and you were the one that helped me go in the right direction, but it's a major pain to get everything working smoothly. A simple -NOMAX switch would be nice, although most likely won't happen with the desktop on the back burner these days.

          It's not a deal breaker anyway, I'll live with it.

          Thanks again for your input!

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            Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

            Okay, using Marcel Kollenaar's code as a starting point and doing some research on the windows api, I came up with some code to disable the maximize button on the main A5 window. I've tested it on Windows XP & Windows 7 using A5 ver8 & A5 ver11.

            Here's the code if you're interested:


            Code:
            declare user32 swl@SetWindowLongA LLLL
'Thanks To: Marcel Kollenaar for his code on the API - SetWindowPos function & GetActiveWindow function  
declare user32 SetWindowPos LLLLLLLL
declare user32 GetActiveWindow L

Constant global GWL_STYLE = -16           'Changes the style of the window
Constant global WS_CAPTION = 12582912     'Gives the window a title bar
Constant global WS_THICKFRAME = 262144   'Makes the window resizable
Constant global WS_MAXIMIZEBOX = 65536   'Include this for a Max button enabled
Constant global WS_MINIMIZEBOX = 131072  'Include this for a Min button enabled
Constant global WS_SYSMENU = 524288      'Must also specify WS_CAPTION - remove this to remove all 3 buttons on title bar
Constant global SWP_NOMOVE = 2            'Retains the window current position 
Constant global SWP_NOSIZE = 1             'Retains the window current size
Constant global FLAGS = SWP_NOMOVE .OR. SWP_NOSIZE
Constant global HWND_TOP = 0
Constant global HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Constant global HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2

'Get the pointer to the active Window.
Dim hwnd as N
hwnd := GetActiveWindow()

'Disable the maximize button using the Windows API
swl(hWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_SYSMENU .OR. WS_CAPTION .OR. WS_THICKFRAME .OR. WS_MINIMIZEBOX)

SetWindowPos(hwnd, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, 0, 0, FLAGS)

xbasic_wait_for_idle()

:a5.Show()
            See pic below

            WinMaxDisable.jpg
            Last edited by R Kenyon; 01-14-2014, 01:15 PM.

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              Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

              'Disable the maximize button using the Windows API
              swl(hWnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_SYSMENU .OR. WS_CAPTION .OR. WS_THICKFRAME .OR. WS_MINIMIZEBOX)
              Where is the SWL() function to be found?
              Robin

              Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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                #8
                Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

                It's an alias for the SetWindowLongA function- See http://www.alphasoftware.com/documen...ic_DECLARE.xml

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                  Re: A5 Desktop User Interface design ?

                  There it is right in the first line - sorry I didn't see it.
                  Robin

                  Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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